''Palpifer'' is a genus of

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s of the family Hepialidae described by George Hampson in 1893. There are 10 described species found in south and east Asia and parts of

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. Species of the genus possess large rounded and ascending palpi. Antennae short and setiferous (bristly). Legs hairy with spurs absent on tibia. Forewings without a bar between vein 1b and the median nervure. Veins 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked in both wings. Veinlets in cell forked.

Species

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Palpifer falkneri ''Palpifer falkneri'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त् ...

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Palpifer hopponis ''Palpifer hopponis'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

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Palpifer murinus ''Palpifer murinus'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in India. The food plant for this species is ''Colocasia ''Colocasia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subco ...

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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

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Colocasia ''Colocasia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Some species are widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical and subtropical regions. The names elephant-ear ...

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Palpifer pellicia ''Palpifer pellicia'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae first described by Charles Swinhoe in 1905. It is found in India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country b ...

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Palpifer sexnotatus ''Palpifer sexnotatus'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in India and Japan. Food plants for the species include '' Amorphophallus'' and ''Colocasia ''Colocasia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to ...

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Amorphophallus ''Amorphophallus'' (from Ancient Greek , "without form, misshapen" + ''phallos'', "penis", referring to the shape of the prominent spadix) is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the ''Arum'' family ...

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Palpifer sordida ''Palpifer sordida'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It was described by Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen in 1900. It is found in Java, Indonesia. Food plants for this species include ''Alocasia ''Alocasia'' is a genus of rhizomatous or tu ...

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Alocasia ''Alocasia'' is a genus of rhizomatous or tuberous, broad-leaved, perennial, flowering plants from the family Araceae. There are about 90 accepted species native to tropical and subtropical Asia and eastern Australia. Around the world, many growe ...

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Dioscorea ''Dioscorea'' is a genus of over 600 species of flowering plants in the family Dioscoreaceae, native throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. The vast majority of the species are tropical, with only a few species extending ...

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Palpifer taprobanus ''Palpifer taprobanus'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1887 and is found in Sri Lanka. The species was once classified as being the same species as '' Palpifer sexnotatus''. In ''The Fauna of British I ...

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Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

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Palpifer tavoyanus ''Palpifer tavoyanus'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some ...

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Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

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Palpifer umbrinus ''Palpifer umbrinus'' is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, an ...

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References

2. John R Grehan
Hepialidae - ''Palpifer'' Hepialidae Exoporia genera Taxa named by George Hampson {{Hepialidae-stub